This paper analyses total factor productivity growth in the unorganized manufacturing sector in India using several rounds of the large scale National Sample Survey state-level data for 15 major Indian states for the period 1978-79 to 2000-01. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compute...

pt. 1. Methodology, analytical issues, data quality and review -- pt. 2. Macro-approach to productivity measurement -- pt. 3. Regional and micro-approach to productivity measurement -- pt. 4. The way forward.